Jayhawks roll to win over Bruins

However, I would be remiss if I did not mention the one surprise last night.

“We’ve got a team that’s very disappointed with the outcome”, UNLV coach Dave Rice said.

St. John’s had a first half most teams can only dream about. “We made too many mental mistakes, okay, that ended up looking physically wrong because of the way we passed the ball because we weren’t as aware as we needed to be”.

In the final moments here on Monday night, as the scoring records fell and the Lahaina Civic Center came to life, Kansas’ Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk controlled the ball on the left wing and crossed over to his right. We had to fight through the aches and pains.

The Jayhawks, in fact, haven’t played Vanderbilt since December 1997, when the two teams met at the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu. Blackmon hit 5 of 8 from the field and scored 12 points in 17 minutes, and Williams scored seven while adding nine rebounds in 19 minutes. One night after putting up the most points of the Self era, the Jayhawks ran a Pac-12 program out the gym in the first half, burying the Bruins with a lethal blend of three-point bombs and senior forward Perry Ellis.

Patrick McCaw had 20 points for the Runnin’ Rebels (3-1), including two 3s in the final 6 seconds. “We didn’t have a great sixth half, but other than that, we played five pretty good halves of basketball”. “We had a bad 6-minute stretch there in the middle of the second half with a bunch of turnovers in a row, it led to easy baskets by them that was the difference in the game”.

The Division II Silverswords went 0-3 in their nationally televised signature event with losses to No. 5 Kansas, UNLV and St. John’s.

In the first half, they shot 57.6 percent (19 of 33) from the field, 53.3 percent (8 for 15) from 3-point range and 86.7 percent (13 of 15) from the free-throw line.

“We have good shooters but tonight we didn’t make them”, Chaminade’s Rohndell Goodwin said.

First of all, they’re a lot bigger than we are. “We had no chance to win unless Frank plays”.

Forward Kyle Wiltjer scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Bulldogs stopped the in-state rival Huskies in a quarterfinal game of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas. It did to matter what UCLA did because Kansas was the more dominant team on this game. He spent this one on the bench in a sweatsuit with a towel wrapped around his neck….

UNLV is likely to have its key 7-footer for this evening’s Maui Invitational matchup with IN at 5:00PM ET.

Chaminade: Reserve guard Dantley Walker played at UNLV for two seasons that were separated by a redshirt year and an LDS mission.

IN is 11-5 against the spread following a game that they didn’t cover the point spread, 4-0 against the spread against the Mountain West, and 1-5 against the spread following a win. “He kept us in the game by making, I think, three 3s that were guarded and basically kept us within striking distance”. UNLV can help their NCAA Tournament resume with a win here.

St. John’s showed some improvements over the last three days in the Maui Invitational, but the trip to Hawaii wouldn’t be a true success unless they notched at least one victory.